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fainaigue

verb
/fəˈneɪɡ/UK/fəˈneɪɡ/US

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps: * related to Old French fornoiier, fornier (“to deny”), from for- (prefix expressing error, exclusion, or inadequacy) + noiier, nier (“to deny”) (compare Late Latin forīsnegāre (“to renege, repudiate”), where the Frankish for- is rendered into Latin as forīs), from Latin negāre (“to deny; to refuse, say no; to reject, turn down (something)”), from nē (“no; not”) + aiō (“to affirm, say ‘yes’”)) (for the word ending, compare reneague (“to refuse to follow suit in a card game, renege; to deny, refuse; act of refusing to follow suit in a card game”) (Britain, dialectal)); or * from feign (“to pretend”) + ague (“intermittent fever; (obsolete) acute fever”), or French aigüe (“(medicine) acute”) (as in maladie aiguë (“acute illness”)), literally “to act sick”.

  1. derived from aigu
  2. derived from negō
  3. derived from fornoiier — “to deny”

Definitions

  1. To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods

    To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.

    • The Swabian abbots were in this way fainaigued into choosing [Adam] Adami, but this arrangement still left him without the so-called Virilstimme or final vote.

  2. To cheat or deceive (someone).

    • He agreed with the boy for a month at £4 a-year, and he went away and feneaged that boy, and never took him nor paid him.
    • [H]e was doing a stitch of time in Ohio for embezzlement and for fainaiguing a good-hearted Jack under the alias Joseph […]

  3. To evade work or shirk responsibility.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To fail to keep a promise

      To fail to keep a promise; to renege.

    2. To renege (“break one's commitment to follow suit when capable”).

      • When Mr. Simpson had spoken of the "Jack of Oaks" (meaning the Knave of Clubs), or had said "fainaiguing" (where others said "revoking"), we had pretended not to notice it, until at length we actually did not.

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